Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 49
Now this damsel had been carried off by the Leshy, and had lived in his hut for three years--her clothes were all worn out, or had got torn off her back, so that she was stark naked but she wasn't a bit ashamed of that.
Who acts: Leshy, mother · What happens: carry off, live, wear out, tear off, be, not be · To what, where: damsel, hut, clothes, back
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Leshy, mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 carried | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 damsel | det |
| 3 | damsel | damsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 carried | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 carried | aux:pass |
| 6 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 carried | compound:prt |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 Leshy | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Leshy | det |
| 10 | Leshy | Leshy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lived | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lived | cc |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lived | aux |
| 14 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 carried | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 hut | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hut | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lived | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 years | case |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 years | nummod |
| 20 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lived | obl |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 worn | punct |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 26 worn | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 worn | aux:pass |
| 25 | all | all | ADV | _ | 26 worn | advmod |
| 26 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 lived | advcl |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 worn | compound:prt |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 torn | punct |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 torn | cc |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 torn | aux |
| 31 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 torn | aux:pass |
| 32 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 worn | conj |
| 33 | off | off | ADP | _ | 35 back | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 back | nmod:poss |
| 35 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 torn | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 naked | punct |
| 37 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 42 naked | mark |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 so | fixed |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 naked | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 naked | cop |
| 41 | stark | stark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 naked | amod |
| 42 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 torn | parataxis |
| 43 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 49 ashamed | cc |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 ashamed | nsubj |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 ashamed | cop |
| 46 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 49 ashamed | advmod |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 bit | det |
| 48 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 ashamed | obl:unmarked |
| 49 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 naked | conj |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 that | case |
| 51 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 49 ashamed | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry off | past · perfect · passive | the Leshy | this damsel | now | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | past · perfect | the Leshy not said here | Russia's hut | year | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location | |||
| 3 | wear out | past · passive | mother's clothes | all property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source | ||||
| 4 | tear off | past · perfect · passive | mother's back | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: back=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | past | mother | naked property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not is | past | mother | of that; a bit obl:unmarked; ashamed property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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